Zhang Shiming old house, is a wealthy southern, Nanxun "four images," Chang, grandson of one of Zhang Songxian balance of the big house built. Aka Yide Church. Jiangnan remained rare to revive the Ming and Qing history, one of the wealthy mansions, is a Chinese and Western-style buildings of classical architecture. Its peculiar style, a magnificent structure, process of skills, the essence of architecture, known as the "First Jiangnan houses."

Xun Zhang Shiming old house overlooking the ancient river, sitting east, covers an area of 6500 squareMeters, construction area of 7,000 square meters, four of five fall into, and in all kinds of building Western-style 150.
The old house in Hall, Hall, House, Villa, about hundreds of housing, mastery, unique. Inside the residence of the gate, wall, wall, column, frame, rafters, doors, windows, thousands of stone, wood, brick, and knife skills, clever composition, style, elegance, whether it is flowers, birds and animals or people, are ready to come , life, embodies the essence of the late Qing Chinese carving art.
SpecialInside the residence is decorated with a lattice windows and doors, stained glass, France, in turn, etc. for the entire mansion has added Chinese and Western art color.

Balance sheets: (1871-1927), the word Shi-ming, No. fitness park owner, two decades of the Qing dynasty (1874) lifts. In addition to operating his family business of silk, the salt industry, the big banks in Shanghai opened carefully and the South East Trust, to carry out standard gold, voting, public school transfer business and real estate business.
This person was quite wise not only in business but also in culture and art of great taste. Good stone in his life, so take the word "stone-ming." He also paintings, inscriptions, books are love, and some of the late Qing Qing literati, very close to celebrities, such as Changshuo, Zheng Xiao Xu, Ding supplemented, Mao Fu Temple and so on.